Of course, this is not difficult for technical experts, who have come up with two methods through repeated research experiments, one is to map the image imaged by the lens on the image sensor through the lens. The other is to reflect the image imaged by these lenses to the image sensor.

Of course, there is a third, and most primitive way of relaxing, adjusting the angle of each lens or lens so that the image is projected onto the sensor.

Is it feasible to do this, in fact? Although the images projected by multiple lenses are slightly different, they can be handled very well after calculation.

Through these methods, they successfully integrated ten lenses together and developed their first compound eye camera.

However, this technology is not advanced, the technical content is not high, it is easy to achieve, in fact, there are already compound eye cameras developed using this technology on the market.

Moreover, there are too few lenses, and the structure is relatively complex, so can you integrate too many lenses and simplify the structure as much as possible?

The R&D team came up with an even bolder idea, it was not enough to compress the image sensor into one piece, but also to compress so many lenses into one.

Yes, the idea is bold enough and very original. However, this was not possible in real time, because the R&D team designed a special lens, which is not the traditional convex and concave mirrors, but a huge honeycomb optical lens composed of many equilateral octagonal convex mirrors.

In this way, this special honeycomb structure lens composed of multi-faceted honeycomb lenses can achieve the goal of concentrating many lenses in one lens.

This kind of design or such an idea is indeed very genius, and it can be said that it is amazing, but there are problems in the implementation.

First of all, this honeycomb octagonal lens is difficult to process and manufacture, and secondly, the focus formed by this honeycomb octagonal lens is relatively scattered, and it is also a problem if so many focal points are focused. Of course, this is possible with lenses and reflective lenses, but there is a bottleneck in the lens manufacturing process.

Especially when it comes to processing tiny lenses, it is even more difficult. Even the unremitting efforts of the research team were able to come up with a compound lens with a diameter of 20 centimeters and 36 lenses.

With this lens, it has been proven that this technology is feasible and has achieved very good results.

Therefore, the scientific research team began to contact the company's patent application and registration operation management team, and began to apply for technical patents related to registration.

On the other hand, further research is being carried out with the aim of overcoming the difficulties of manufacturing lenses and further miniaturization.

After unremitting efforts, good news finally came from the optical imaging technology research and development laboratory, so Wu Hao also rushed here as soon as possible.

Seeing that Wu Hao was anxious to inquire as soon as he came, Sun Pengfei and Yao Zihua could also feel the eagerness in Wu Hao's heart, which was brought about by long-term attention.

So Yao Zihua nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, we have made a breakthrough in lens processing technology, just yesterday we successfully processed one hundred and ten octagonal lenses on a lens with a diameter of fifteen millimeters. ”

Well, fifteen millimeters, one hundred and ten octagonal lenses, how did it come about? Wu Hao's mind was now full of question marks.

Laser, we have adopted laser printing technology.

Sun Pengfei smiled and led Wu Hao to the edge of the test bench, then pointed to the lens under the electron microscope, and said to Wu Hao: "This is the 15*110 honeycomb optical lens we have processed, this is the picture presented in the electron microscope." ”

Wu Hao glanced at the lens about the size of a finger under the electron microscope, and then turned his gaze to the high-definition display screen.

I saw a round lens appear on the screen, and the surface of the lens was nothing special, it looked like an ordinary transparent lens.

It's just that inside the lens, there are a lot of octagonal outlines, and these octagonal outlines fill the entire lens, forming a honeycomb pattern together.

Sun Pengfei smiled at Wu Hao and introduced: "We used 3D laser printing technology to print several octahedral lenses in this transparent lens.

With this technology, we are able to print octagonal lenses as small as 0.2 millimeters. Even we can print out smaller lenses, if needed. ”

Just sculpt the contour in the lens without changing its shape? Wu Hao questioned. After all, in his opinion, it is somewhat unrealistic to just carve out the outline of the lens inside.

Yao Zihua shook his head now and said: "Of course not, if you only carve the outline in the lens, this will not achieve the refraction effect."

Therefore, we need to print out the lens outline, and then carry out special processing on the remaining part to make it lose the characteristics of glass, so that the light is not affected by this part of the glass. ”

How to solve the problem that the focal length of such a small lens is too short. Wu Hao threw out a question again.

Sun Pengfei preemptively responded: "We still use the lens principle to help us lengthen the focal length of these small lenses." We can carve two or even three layers of octagonal honeycomb lenses on top of a single lens. ”

Looking at the smug expressions of the two, Wu Hao nodded with a smile and said, "Good job, I am impressed by your amazing imagination and creativity."

How is the imaging effect, has it been tested. ”

Hearing Wu Hao's words, both of them shook their heads and said: "At present, we have only processed the lens, which is the first step in the entire research and development process of compound lenses, and there is still a long way to go."

How to make these octagonal honeycomb lenses achieve corners, how to assemble them, how to develop image sensors suitable for octagonal honeycomb lenses, and how to generate these image information are all topics that we will study in the future. ”

Wu Hao nodded when he heard this, then patted the two of them on the shoulder and said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, you have successfully developed the corners of the most difficult part-shaped honeycomb lens to achieve the corners, I believe that the next problems will be difficult for you, and I have confidence in you." ”

Wu Hao nodded when he heard this, then patted the two of them on the shoulder and said: "It doesn't matter, anyway, the most difficult part has been successfully developed, I believe that the next problems will be difficult for you, I have confidence in you." ”